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August 30, 2026 – September 5, 2026
Astrology IRL(In Real Life) by Merryman Cassels
Astrologer and Akashic Records reader for the Sedona Center for the New Age.
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Astrology IRL: Let Life Flow
After the intensity of the past few weeks, this is hardly the busiest week for our planetary wanderers, and that may come as a welcome relief.
We’ve traveled through two eclipses, watched the Sun and Mercury square unpredictable Uranus, and spent much of August listening closely for what was being revealed, released, or redirected. This week gives us a little more room to simply live our lives and see where the current carries us.
Sunday begins with a lovely bit of fire as the Aries Moon trines Jupiter at 19° Leo, just as Mars prepares to leave Cancer and stride into Leo. Mars has been in his fall in Cancer, where the planet of action has had to navigate the tender territory of feeling, family, memory, and belonging. In Leo, Mars gets some of his fire back. Courage, creativity, passion, play, romance, and the desire to express ourselves come roaring back into the picture. After weeks of eclipse weather, that little spark may feel awfully good.
Monday, the Aries Moon opposes Venus in Libra, briefly placing our own desires across the table from the wishes of another. Venus is beautifully at home in Libra, while an Aries Moon tends to know exactly what it wants. Somewhere in that conversation lives the art of relationship: honoring ourselves while leaving room for the people we love.
Tuesday carries considerably more weight as Mars at 13° Cancer squares Saturn at 13° Aries. Mars wants movement. Saturn applies the brakes. Since both planets are operating from signs where they have to work a little harder, frustration can build when effort meets resistance. There are times when a closed door deserves another push and others when the delay contains useful information. Tuesday may help us tell the difference.
Thankfully, Mercury in discerning Virgo sextiles Mars shortly afterward. The mind gets involved and begins looking for a workable solution. Virgo Mercury loves a problem it can actually solve. A thoughtful conversation, revised plan, missing detail, or bit of practical information may help us work with the obstacle rather than simply pushing against it.
And maybe that’s enough astrology for a minute.
After a month filled with eclipses, nodal shifts, outer-planet patterns, ingresses, revelations, and all manner of celestial carrying-on, a quieter sky feels rather lovely.
There is a time to search for the message and a time to simply live what has already been revealed.
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IRL Tip: Description
The IRL tip means how to apply your astrology “In Real Life”.
I hope this clarifies your questions. Merryman
Aries (March 21-April 19) Weekly Horoscope: for Aries & Aries Rising
Your IRL Week:
After all the eclipse activity of August, this week gives you a little room to see what has actually landed. Sunday begins with the Moon in your sign trining Jupiter in fellow fire sign Leo, adding warmth, confidence, and a welcome sense of possibility. Mars is also preparing to enter Leo, your fifth house of creativity, romance, children, pleasure, and self-expression. Your ruling planet has spent the past several weeks in his fall in Cancer, stirring home, family, and emotional territory. His move into fiery Leo should feel considerably more natural. Your spark is returning.
Tuesday deserves a little patience. Mars squares Saturn in your sign, bringing the desire to move forward up against a boundary, responsibility, or reality check. Saturn in Aries has been asking you to become more deliberate about how you use your energy and authority. This square may show you exactly where greater discipline is needed.
Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars shortly afterward, giving you something useful to work with. A practical conversation, adjustment to your schedule, or clearer understanding of the details can help loosen whatever felt stuck. After the drama of eclipse season, solving one ordinary problem may feel downright luxurious.
IRL Tip:
Put some of that returning fire into something you genuinely enjoy.
Self-Care Theme:
Moving your body and using your energy well.
Kind Deed:
Encourage someone who could use a little confidence.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20) Weekly Horoscope: for Taurus & Taurus Rising
Your IRL Week:
The eclipse dust is beginning to settle, giving you a little space to look around and see what has changed. Sunday brings a warm Aries Moon-Jupiter trine through the quieter parts of your chart, making rest, home, and private pleasures especially appealing.
Mars moves into Leo and your fourth house of home, family, property, roots, and belonging. Energy gathers around your physical home and the people who share it. Projects around the house may suddenly move forward, family matters require attention, or you may simply feel ready to put more energy into creating a place that truly feels like yours. Mars in fiery Leo brings considerably more heat to this part of your chart, so family dynamics can become lively as well.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects home and family with your twelfth house of rest, retreat, and matters operating behind the scenes. Something may require patience before you can move forward. Mercury in fellow earth sign Virgo soon sextiles Mars, bringing practical thinking to the rescue. A creative solution, helpful conversation, or willingness to approach the situation differently can make all the difference.
With fewer major aspects crowding the heavens, give yourself permission to enjoy the ordinary pleasures Taurus understands so well. A good meal, fresh flowers, a comfortable bed, and people you love constitute a perfectly respectable spiritual practice.
IRL Tip:
Put your energy into making home feel good.
Self-Care Theme:
Simple pleasures and solid ground.
Kind Deed:
Feed someone. Taurus knows this one by heart.
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Gemini (May 21-June 20) Weekly Horoscope: for Gemini & Gemini Rising
Your IRL Week:
After several weeks of eclipses and celestial commotion, your ruling planet Mercury is happily settled into Virgo, another sign it rules. Your mind may feel clearer, more discerning, and considerably more interested in what is actually useful.
Mars moves into Leo and your third house of communication, writing, teaching, learning, siblings, neighbors, and everyday movement. Words acquire heat and courage. Ideas want somewhere to go. This can be wonderful for writing, speaking, teaching, pitching an idea, or finally having the conversation you’ve been circling.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects those conversations with your eleventh house of friendships, groups, and future plans. A friend, organization, or long-range goal may require a little more patience than you’d prefer. Mercury comes in shortly afterward with a helpful sextile to Mars, connecting home and family with communication. Your ruling planet loves having a puzzle to solve, and in Virgo it has the patience to find the missing piece.
This quieter astrological week may suit you more than expected. Every moment of open space requires neither information nor entertainment. Sometimes the most interesting conversation begins after everyone else stops talking.
IRL Tip:
Use your words to move one good idea forward.
Self-Care Theme:
Giving your mind some breathing room.
Kind Deed:
Make the call or send the note you’ve been meaning to send.
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Cancer (June 21-July 22) Weekly Horoscope: for Cancer & Cancer Rising
Your IRL Week:
After a month of eclipses and plenty of celestial commotion, this quieter week may feel especially welcome. Sunday’s Aries Moon trines Jupiter in Leo, bringing a little fire to your career and money houses and helping you see possibilities around work, resources, or something you’ve been hoping to build.
Mars is preparing to leave your sign and enter Leo. You may actually feel the shift. Mars has been in his fall in Cancer, bringing plenty of heat into the tender territory of identity, body, instinct, and emotion. As he moves into your second house, the focus turns toward money, resources, talents, and what you value enough to invest your energy in. Mars in Leo has considerably more fire to work with, and you may feel newly motivated to earn, build, negotiate, or put one of your gifts to better use.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects money and resources with career and responsibility. A financial goal may bump against a professional reality, or something you want requires a more disciplined plan. Mercury in Virgo soon sextiles Mars, bringing useful information, a productive conversation, or a practical solution. Read the fine print, ask the question, make the call. Sometimes clarity really is that simple.
IRL Tip:
Put your energy behind something you genuinely value.
Self-Care Theme:
Using your resources wisely.
Kind Deed:
Share one of your talents where it can make someone’s day easier.
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Leo (July 23-August 22) Weekly Horoscope: for Leo & Leo Rising
Your IRL Week:
Mars enters your sign this week, and after all the eclipse activity in Leo, you may be ready for a little fire of your own. Mars has spent the past several weeks moving through your twelfth house, stirring dreams, old emotions, unfinished business, and matters unfolding behind the scenes. His arrival in your first house brings the energy back out into the open. Motivation rises. Desire becomes clearer. You may feel ready to act on something you’ve been quietly considering.
Sunday’s Aries Moon trines Jupiter in your sign, adding another generous dose of fire. Travel, teaching, learning, spirituality, or simply seeing your life from a larger perspective can restore enthusiasm after an intense August.
Tuesday brings the week’s reality check as Mars squares Saturn in your ninth house. Your desire to move may meet a rule, deadline, responsibility, belief, or limitation that requires more thought. Saturn has a funny way of asking whether we really mean what we say we want. Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars shortly afterward, helping you get practical about money, resources, and the logistics required to move forward.
With Mars and Jupiter both traveling through Leo, there’s plenty of fuel in the tank. The trick is choosing where you actually want to drive.
IRL Tip:
Choose one thing worth your fire and give it your full attention.
Self-Care Theme:
Directing your energy with purpose.
Kind Deed:
Lend your confidence to someone who has temporarily misplaced theirs.
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Virgo (August 23-September 22) Weekly Horoscope: for Virgo & Virgo Rising
Your IRL Week:
The Sun has returned to your sign, Mercury is happily at home in Virgo, and after a rather dramatic August, the heavens finally seem willing to let you straighten a few things up. This is your season, and you may feel the pleasure of returning to your own rhythm, priorities, body, and plans.
Mars moves into Leo and your twelfth house this week, shifting some of your energy behind the scenes. The twelfth house governs rest, dreams, solitude, spiritual practice, and the parts of ourselves that need quiet before they can be understood. Mars here can stir the unconscious, so pay attention to dreams, old frustrations, and whatever seems to rise when the world gets quiet.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects this private territory with your eighth house of shared resources, intimacy, debts, obligations, and trust. Something behind the scenes may require attention before it can truly be put to rest. Fortunately, Mercury in your sign sextiles Mars shortly afterward. Your ruler is in excellent condition in Virgo, giving you the discernment to name what is happening, sort through the details, and decide what deserves your energy.
After weeks of eclipses asking enormous questions, Virgo season may feel deliciously practical. Sometimes enlightenment looks remarkably like finally dealing with the thing that’s been sitting on the kitchen counter for three weeks.
IRL Tip:
Clear one physical or emotional space that’s been quietly asking for attention.
Self-Care Theme:
Rest with purpose.
Kind Deed:
Take care of one useful detail for someone you love.
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Libra (September 23-October 22) Weekly Horoscope: for Libra & Libra Rising
Your IRL Week:
After August’s eclipses and all their celestial carrying-on, a quieter week gives you a little room to see what has actually changed. Monday’s Aries Moon opposes Venus in your sign, briefly placing your own needs and the desires of another across the table from each other. Venus is beautifully at home in Libra, so your natural instinct for balance is strong. The question is where compromise creates harmony and where it simply leaves everyone mildly dissatisfied.
Mars moves into Leo and your eleventh house of friendships, community, organizations, and future aspirations. Energy begins gathering around the people and projects that share your vision. A friend may need your help, a group could suddenly become more important, or a long-range dream begins asking for action rather than another round of contemplation.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects those future plans with your seventh house of partnership and commitments. Someone else’s needs, an agreement, or an existing responsibility may affect the timing of what you want to pursue. Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars shortly afterward, and information arriving quietly or behind the scenes could help you see a workable way forward.
This week has plenty of open space in it. For Libra, that may be an invitation to enjoy the people you love without needing every gathering to accomplish anything at all.
IRL Tip:
Put some energy behind a future you genuinely want.
Self-Care Theme:
Friendship and breathing room.
Kind Deed:
Invite someone into the circle who might enjoy being included.
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Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Weekly Horoscope: for Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
Your IRL Week:
Mars, your traditional ruler, moves into Leo and climbs to the very top of your chart this week. After traveling through your ninth house of travel, teaching, spirituality, and the search for meaning, Mars now brings his fire into career, leadership, reputation, and purpose. Ambition wakes up. A professional goal may suddenly feel urgent, or you may simply become much clearer about where you want your energy to make a difference.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square deserves respect. Saturn in your sixth house of work, health, and daily responsibilities may have a few practical questions about that grand plan. Time, energy, staffing, schedules, or plain old reality could temporarily slow the momentum. Saturn’s delays often reveal where the structure needs strengthening.
Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars shortly afterward, connecting friends, colleagues, organizations, and long-range goals with your professional life. A conversation with the right person may offer a solution, introduction, or missing piece of information. Let your community help.
With fewer major aspects filling the week, you have some room to work with what is already in front of you. Scorpio understands better than most that real power rarely requires constant movement.
IRL Tip:
Direct your ambition toward the work that actually matters to you.
Self-Care Theme:
Sustainable achievement.
Kind Deed:
Give someone deserving a professional recommendation or introduction.
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Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Weekly Horoscope: for Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
Your IRL Week:
A little fire returns to the heavens this week, and you may be especially happy to see it. Sunday’s Aries Moon trines Jupiter, your ruling planet, in fellow fire sign Leo, warming your fifth and ninth houses. Creativity, romance, travel, teaching, learning, and adventure all receive a lovely boost. After the intensity of eclipse season, something may simply feel fun again. Hallelujah.
Mars moves into Leo and your ninth house, adding even more fire to travel, higher education, publishing, teaching, spirituality, and the search for meaning. Mars wants experience rather than theory. A trip may call your name, a subject suddenly deserves deeper study, or you may feel ready to teach, write, publish, or speak about something you care about.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects this hunger for expansion with your fifth house of creativity, romance, and children. A responsibility may temporarily compete with your desire to run toward the horizon. Mercury in Virgo soon sextiles Mars, connecting career with the larger vision. Something you’re learning, teaching, or exploring may have a very practical application in your professional life.
This week doesn’t require an enormous revelation. Sometimes Sagittarius just needs a road, a little freedom, and something interesting waiting around the bend.
IRL Tip:
Follow one curiosity far enough to see where it leads.
Self-Care Theme:
Room to explore.
Kind Deed:
Share an experience, book, or bit of wisdom that might open someone else’s world.
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Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Weekly Horoscope: for Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Your IRL Week:
After a month of eclipses and plenty of celestial activity, a quieter week gives you some room to work with what has already been revealed. Sunday’s Aries Moon trines Jupiter in Leo, connecting home, family, and your foundations with shared resources, intimacy, and support from others. Something feels a little easier when you allow another person to meet you halfway.
Mars moves into Leo and your eighth house of shared resources, investments, taxes, inheritances, intimacy, trust, and transformation. Energy begins gathering around matters that require cooperation, negotiation, or a willingness to go beneath the surface. Mars here can bring financial matters to the front burner, while also stirring deeper questions around trust and vulnerability.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square deserves your attention because Saturn is your ruling planet. Saturn in Aries and your fourth house places responsibility around home, family, property, or your emotional foundations against Mars in the eighth. A shared financial obligation, family matter, or commitment may require patience and a clear plan. Mercury in fellow earth sign Virgo sextiles Mars shortly afterward, and a conversation, expert opinion, bit of paperwork, or wider perspective may reveal the practical way through.
This is a good week to handle what needs handling and then go live your life. Even Capricorn deserves an afternoon with absolutely nothing productive on the agenda.
IRL Tip:
Get clear about one shared financial or emotional commitment.
Self-Care Theme:
Allowing support to flow both ways.
Kind Deed:
Take care of a practical matter that lightens someone else’s load.
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Aquarius (January 20-February 18) Weekly Horoscope: for Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Your IRL Week:
Mars moves into Leo and your seventh house of marriage, partnership, clients, contracts, and significant one-to-one relationships this week. Other people suddenly have considerably more energy, opinions, and presence in your life. Mars can bring passion and momentum to relationships, along with a little extra heat when two people want different things. Used well, this is wonderful energy for tackling something together rather than dancing politely around it.
Sunday’s Aries Moon trines Jupiter in your partnership house, giving conversations and connections a warm beginning. Someone may bring an opportunity, introduction, or simply a generous dose of encouragement.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects partnership with communication. Saturn in your third house wants precision and accountability, while Mars in Leo would rather speak straight from the heart. A conversation may require patience, especially when both parties feel strongly about their position. Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars soon afterward, helping you get beneath the words to the real issue. Shared resources, intimacy, trust, or an agreement may be part of the deeper conversation.
After the relationship-heavy eclipse story of August, this week gives you an opportunity to actually live some of what you’ve learned. Sometimes understanding another person happens over dinner rather than through another hour of analysis.
IRL Tip:
Have the conversation while leaving room for another point of view.
Self-Care Theme:
Healthy interdependence.
Kind Deed:
Give someone your full attention without trying to solve anything.
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Pisces (February 19-March 20) Weekly Horoscope: for Pisces & Pisces Rising
Your IRL Week:
Mars moves into Leo and your sixth house of work, health, daily routines, and service this week, bringing fresh energy to the practical machinery of your life. After the enormous emotional and spiritual territory of eclipse season, there may be something wonderfully satisfying about simply getting things done. A work project gathers momentum, a health routine gets your attention, or the pile that’s been staring at you finally gets handled.
Tuesday’s Mars-Saturn square connects your daily responsibilities with money, resources, and values. A plan may need to fit within the reality of your time, energy, or budget. Saturn has little interest in wishful accounting. Thankfully, Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars shortly afterward, and another person may offer exactly the information, assistance, or perspective that helps everything work more smoothly.
Mercury is traveling through your seventh house of partnership, so conversations with partners, clients, collaborators, and the important people in your life can be especially productive. Ask for help where it makes sense. Cooperation can accomplish considerably more than carrying the whole basket yourself.
After your Pisces Lunar Eclipse, a quieter week may be exactly what you need. Let the revelations settle. Wash the sheets. Answer the emails. Take the walk. Make dinner. There is plenty of magic in an ordinary life well lived.
IRL Tip:
Choose one daily habit that makes everything else work better.
Self-Care Theme:
Caring for the body that carries your dreams.
Kind Deed:
Help someone with an ordinary task that makes their day a little easier.
NEW! Gifts for Pisces and Astrology Reports
Merryman Cassels
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